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Glass beads found in pre-Hispanic and colonial archaeological contexts in the Ecuadorian Amazon have not been frequently reported in the academic literature. Yet the unique discovery of this type of objects in a funerary urn in the collections of the Museo Arqueológico y Centro Cultural de Orellana (MACCCO-EP), which has been catalogued as belonging to the Napo phase, allows us to emphasise their use in mortuary practices prevailing in a colonial context with strong asymmetrical dependencies. This article aims to present a typological analysis of this set of glass beads so as to discuss exchange networks and the uses given to this material of European origin in colonial society and in indigenous Amazonian societies. A comparison of the results with other sets of glass beads in the Americas indicates that they were widely used between the seventeenth and the nineteenth centuries in various Amazonian secondary burial contexts in urns, thus allowing for the renewal and resistance of these practices in the colonial, and possibly also in the republican period. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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In the Genoa river valley (west-central province of Chubut, Argentina), the information on interactions between human groups and animals is scarce. The discovery of Cueva de Plaza archaeological site, where human remains dated 200 years ago, glass beads and the only zooarchaeological assemblage available in the valley were recovered, was a chance to find out if the association between the human and faunal remains responded to funerary offerings or, if as a first evaluation suggested, it was due only to the activity of carnivorous mammals. The results suggest the site functioned as a fox den after the burials and highlight the importance of taphonomic analysis since they provide information on the presence of faunal remains in mortuary contexts and on the intensity of human use of the site. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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